claim, premises, conclusion

deductive, inductive

1\complex statements as claims

non-arguments

2\emotioal discourse: raise voice情绪化表达

3\fictions: no truth value,论据虚构

4\conditional statements条件句

5\explanations：rhetorical，已知事实，deductive，演绎

burden of proof：举证责任

2. What makes a Non-argument

emotional discourse

fiction

conditional statements

explanation

arguments and literatures

1. Even though good fiction has a good internal logic, there is usually no proof involved.

2.The work of fiction, as a whole, can be thought of as a large conditional statement.

arguments and conditionals

1.their antecedents are not asserted to be true

2.they are no more than complex statements

3.since conditionals are statements, of course, they can be part of argument

lack of linkage

arguments and explanations

largely resemble each other

1.the same type of expressions are used in explanations and arguments

2.explanations are oftern used within arguments and presented so as to serve as argument

3.arguments could be parts of any explanation as there are often multiple explanations for any given phenomenon